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Reading and Informational Terms

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Fact and Opinion   A facts a statement that can be proved true or false, an opinion express a personal belief or feeling.  
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Fallacious Reasoning   Fallacious Reasoning is a false reasoning  
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5W-HOW?   The 5W are who? what? when? where? why? and how?  
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Generalization   A broad statement that covers several particular situations.  
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Graphic Features   Graphic Features are design elements in a text.  
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Images   Descriptive writing appeals to the senses of create mental images, pictures in reader's mind.  
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Inference   An educated guess, conclusion that makes sense because it is supported by evidence.  
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Instructional Manuals   Tell you how to operate a specific device.  
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KWL Chart   Way to focus your reading and record what you learn.  
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Main Idea   The most important point or focus of passage.  
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Newspapers   Informational texts that present facts about current events.  
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Objective Writing   Objective writing sticks to the facts.  
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Outlining   informational text can help you identify main ideas and understand how they related to one another.  
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Predictions   Guessing what will happen next in a narrative text.  
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Propaganda   Organized attempt to influence a large audience of readers, listeners or watchers.  
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Purposes of texts   A purpose for a written text, to inform, to persuade, to express feelings or to entertain.  
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Reading Rate   The speed at which you read a text.  
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Retelling   A reading strategy that helps you identify and remember events that advance the plot of a story.  
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SQ3R   Abbreviation for reading and study strategy that takes place in five steps, survey, question, read, retell, review.  
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Signs   briefest informational texts you see.  
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Stereotyping   Referring to all members of a group as if they were all the same.  
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Subjective Writing   Writing that reveals and emphasize the writer's personal feelings and opinions.  
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Summarizing   resting the main ideas or major events in a text.  
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Text Structure   basic ways writers structure informational texts such as cause and effect chronological order and comarison and contrast  
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Textbooks   informational texts written to help students learn about a subject  
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Writer's Perspective   The way person looks at a subject.  
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